Combined screen and weather door



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B MITCHELL GOMBINED SCREEN AND WEATHER DOOR. No. 507,827.

Patented Oct. 31, 1893.

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WITNESSES.

TTOHNE YS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ENOS MITCHELL, OF WELDON, IOWA.

COMBINED SCREEN AND WEATHER DOOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 507,827, dated October 31, 1893.

Applicationfiled June 23,1893- Serial No. 478,599. (No model.)

To whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Enos MITCHELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Weldon, in the county of Decatur and State of Iowa, haveinvented certain new and usefullmprovements in a Combined Screen and Weather Door; and I do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to an improvement in a combined screen and weather door and consists in the construction and arrangements of parts hereinafter described and definitely pointed out in the claims.

The object of the invention is to provide an improved screen door which can be readily transformed into a weather door. These objects are attained by the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawings wherein like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several views and in which Figure l is a rear elevation of a door. Fig. 2 is a vertical section. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the lower section of the door with the detachable connections removed, and Fig. 4 is a detail perspective of the weather strip.

In the drawings A represents the door frame on the outer face of which is secured the wire screen B. The lower edge of the door frame has a series of cross grooves b formed in the edge thereof their inner ends extending up through the inner face of the lower cross bar of the door and terminate at the upthe sides and end bars of the doorframe and are capped by suitable nuts 21'. The panel and molding are placed on the inner face of the door oropposite the screen which as stated is on the outer face of the door.

7 I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters E is a metallic weather strip consisting of a vertical inner section 6 an inclined central section a and a depending outer edge 6 This strip is placed on the base or lower edge of the door frame the central section thereof extending across the lower edge over the grooves while its upper edge e is extending up between the lower molding and lower edge of the panel and is there closely bound and secured to the frame by the bolts cl with which the lower molding is attached to the door frame.

By the above described construction it will be seen that when it is desired to place the panel on the door it is only necessary to remove the molding, adjust the panel and weather strip and replace the molding. In placing the panel on the rear face of the door the rain beating through the screen willstrike the panel, be conducted down the outer face thereof, enter the grooves b at the base of the door striking the weather strip and be led off from the front edge thereof thereby preventing the same from entering the house. The depending flange on the weather strip also prevents the ingress of rain, &c., below the door.

It is evident that minor changes in the construction and arrangements of parts of the device can be made and substituted for those herein shown and described without in the least departing from the nature and princi ple of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what 5 Patent, 1s

lower edge, of a screen secured on the outer face of the frame, a weather panel removably 10o secured on the rear face of the frame and a weather strip on the frame having a vertical upper edge arranged on the rear face of the panel a. forwardly extending inclined section and a depending flange on the forward edge of the inclined section, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ENOS MITCHELL.

Witnesses:

W. H. LILLARD, L. C. BANHAM. 

